Kindle Taproom

Happy New Year's Eve! In honor of the coming new year, I'm going to- with no muss and no fuss (and no photos, too!)- give you fifteen short posts recommending fifteen things I enjoyed over the pa...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-15-meet-harry-bosch.html

Been doing some classic Ross MacDonald detective fiction lately, and though some are way too convoluted for my taste, if you just sit back and let them wash over you they aren't bad and you can s...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-13-discover-lew-archer-pi.html

With a Mind To Kill, the latest James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz, is set immediately after Ian Fleming's final Bond novel, The Man With The Golden Gun, and I liked it a lot. Bond is sent to R...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-13-007-in-russia.html

Courtesy of Audible (Amazon's audiobook service), I recently discovered Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series, and they are nothing like the Dean Martin/swinging 60's movie series of years past. The...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-12-matt-helm-as-hes-supposed-to-be.html

I still read graphic novels and comics sometimes, and I recently caught up with a popular series of a couple of decades ago when I enjoyed a collection of the earliest issues of The Thunderbolts...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-11-thunderbolts-assemble.html

I liked Tana French's The Searcher, so more recently I dived into her novel The Witch Elm. Various cousins hang out with their uncle at his welcoming home, and one day a body is found in his yard...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-10-french-is-always-decent-read.html

As well as discovering The Thunderbolts (mentioned somewhere above), I also recently caught up with a another popular comic book series of a couple of decades ago when I enjoyed Marvel's Runaways...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-9-good-kids-evil-parents.html

The Banshees of Inisherin, now on HBO (or HBO Max, in my case) after a brief theatrical run, is well worth your time. But this tale of two friends who are having a bit of a crisis, is not the lig...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-8-do-weighty-movie-for-change.html

Stephen King's Fairy Tale pushes 600 pages, and in a genre I don't read very often, but I tore through it pretty quickly.  I found the non-fairy tale part set in our world (encompassing about th...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-7-fantasy-laced-with-horror-delivers.html

While Star Wars often delivers excellent all-ages entertainment, the new series Andor (now streaming on Disney+) is unapologetically Star Wars for adults. The plots are complex so you need to pay...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-6-space-opera-for-adults.html

With my recent enjoyment of All The Flowers Are Dying in print and A Drop of the Hard Stuff on audio,  I only have one book left in Lawrence Block's classic Matthew Scudder detective series. If...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-5-follow-matt-scudder-around-town.html

Avatar: The Way of Water surpasses the stunning visuals of the first film, in both craftsmanship and in the variety of things we see, and I found the story to be a little more compelling and invo...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-4-weather-long-running-time.html

After reading the first dozen or so entries in the late Stuart Woods' (sadly, he passed earlier this year) Stone Barrington series, I'm still enjoying the different types of stories- some moody, ...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-3-stone-barrington-still-delivers.html

Barbarian, which has nothing to do with Conan, is a decent, offbeat horror film now streaming in various places, following a theatrical run earlier this year. It starts off as an unsettling two-p...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-2-weird-horror-is-always-good.html

The two short seasons of HBO'S The White Lotus are literate, fun, and visually striking. Set in the first season at The White Lotus Resort in Hawaii and in the second season at its resort in Ital...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/12/tip-1-take-vacations-while-watching-tv.html

Saw a couple of movies in the past day or two that were amiable time passers and not much more, but that's okay. It's still a novelty to be back to going to movies again. I suspect the producers...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/04/calm-before-storm.html

After reading six or seven thrillers about Stuart Woods' benevolent womanizer Stone Barrington ("benevolent" because Stone never seems to intend to sleep with a lot of women, it just turns out t...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/03/dark-doings-at-beach.html

Kenneth Branagh has been in the news lately because of his well-regarded art film Belfast, which has been nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. But that isn't the only current film he's at...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/02/lavish-murders.html

Maybe it still feels like a novelty to enjoy movies at the theater again, but I enjoyed the new Scream.  They dropped the numbers after the title, but it's still the same Scream characters from...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2022/01/scream-and-scream-again.html

Just some quick end of year greetings from the not-very-busy but still-not-quite-dead Kindle Taproom and its cheerful creator. I think I did some decent posts in 2021, meaning I hope they were en...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/12/best-wishes.html

Some quick thoughts and tips from the mind of your humble host... The newest James Bond film, No Time To Die, is a fine entertainment that provides both richness and thrills, and very intentio...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/11/ticker-tape-tips.html

I've seen Stuart Woods' books around for years, as he is very prolific, but I never read him. But a new friend I met at a bar I go to, who has a passion for mysteries and thrillers like me, sa...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/10/finally-meeting-stone-barrington.html

Wall of Silence has been on my Kindle for a while (I think I idly picked it up as some kind of promotional freebie), but I finally got to it recently and I was wowed by its power. Tracy Buchan...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/09/breaking-wall-of-silence.html

I read a lot of detective and crime thrillers, so I guess it makes sense that I also often enjoy that type of thing when sitting in front of the television. And I also tend to enjoy shows mor...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/08/cops-and-crooks-and-crime-oh-my.html

For your brief amusement, here's what some writers say about books. And they should know, right? Definition of a classic: a book which people praise but don't read. Mark Twain. *     *  ...

https://kindletaproom.blogspot.com/2021/07/take-it-away.html